BOOK AWARDS
The BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2003
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/books/features/samueljohnson
Named in honour of the critic, essayist, lexicographer, poet and biographer Samuel Johnson, the prize is funded by an anonymous British businessman and open to any work of non-fiction published in English in the UK, regardless of the author's nationality.
Set up in 1999 following the demise of the NCR Book Award, Samuel Johnson remains the UK's richest prize for non-fiction with the winner receiving £30,000 and each of the other short-listed authors receiving £1000.
The winner was announced at a ceremony at London's Savoy Hotel on 9th June 2003.
Winner (announced early June)
The winner has been announced as:
Pushkin: A Biography by TJ Binyon
Shortlist (announced end April)
Dr Tatiana's Sex Guide to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex by Olivia Judson
Nelson: Love and Fame by Edgar Vincent
Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes
Pushkin: A Biography by TJ Binyon
The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir by Aminatta Forna
Longlist (announced March)
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Albion | Peter Ackroyd | Chatto & Windus | 1856197212 |
| Pushkin | TJ Binyon | HarperCollins | 0002150840 |
| Revenge | Laura Blumenfeld | Picador | 1587242818 |
| The Lost King of France | Deborah Cadbury | Fourth Estate | 1841155888 |
| White Mughals | William Dalrymple | HarperCollins | 0002256762 |
| Stranger on a Train | Jenny Diski | Virago | 1860498914 |
| Natasha's Dance | Orlando Figes | Allen Lane | 0713995173 |
| The Invention of Clouds | Richard Hamblyn | Picador | 0330391941 |
| The Devil That Danced on the Water | Aminatta Forna | HarperCollins | 0002570653 |
| The Righteous | Martin Gilbert | Doubleday | 0805062602 |
| A Corner of a Foreign Field | Ramachandra Guha | Picador | 0330491164 |
| Rosamund Lehmann | Selina Hastings | Chatto & Windus | 0701165421 |
| Dr Tatiana's Sex Guide to All Creation | Olivia Judson | Chatto & Windus | 0701169257 |
| Virgins of Venice | Mary Laven | Viking | 0670896357 |
| Byron | Fiona MacCarthy | John Murray | 071955621X |
| A Rage for Rock Gardening | Nicola Shulman | Short Books | 1904095216 |
| Pepys | Claire Tomalin | Viking | 0670885681 |
| The Lunar Men | Jenny Uglow | Faber and Faber | 0571196470 |
| Nelson | Edgar Vincent | Yale University Press | 0300097972 |
